Health and Social Care GCSE Making the Grade

Health and Social Care GCSE Making the Grade January 2018

Key Topics of Personal Development in the exam: Unit 2 • • • Personal Growth and Development (P. I. E. S. ) Life Stages. Factors. (P. E. E. E+S. ) Self Concept. Relationships. Life Events and Sources of Support

P. I. E. S Physical Emotional Intellectual Social Key terms: Know them, understand them, use them in your answers

Teaching on this key content ‘Life Stages’ is complete. Some review and revision taking place at the moment • Life stages Five main life stages: 1. Infancy (0 -3) 2. Childhood (4 -10) 3. Adolescence ( 11 -18) 4. Adulthood (19 -65) 5. Later adulthood (65+) .

This is the current key content: • Factors: • Physical factors in development, including: Genetic inheritance and diet, physical exercise and illness • Economic/environmental factors, including: Income and housing conditions, pollution and access to health services • Social and emotional factors, including: Family, friendships and education, employment and ethnicity, life experiences and gender. Thinking: How do these affect our P. I. E. S. personal development?

We have also covered: • Self-concept , including, age and gender, appearance, culture and emotional development, education, sexual orientation and life experiences. • Different types of relationships including: family and friends, personal and working relationships. • Life Events and Sources of Support including: accident or illness or getting married or divorced. As individuals how we can access support from professionals, voluntary groups and family and friends. Thinking: How do these affect our P. I. E. S. personal development?

P. I. E. S Physical Emotional Intellectual Social Key terms: Know them, understand them, use them in your answers.

Exam Question Command Words Make sure you have read and understood the question correctly. Read it once, read it twice then highlight the command word. • Identify: Pick out some detail (this can be one word or short phrases). • Describe: Give the main points about a topic. • Explain: Describe an action or event and make a link to the impact it would have. (use PIES as a way to work through actions/impacts) • Analyse: detailed description and explanation of personal development aspect in the question. Links made between aspects. Try to make 1 P. (E). E for every 2 marks. • Evaluate: Balanced description and explanation of both positive and negative impacts. Use PIES as a way to work through impacts and consider all factors including selfconcept. Try to make 1 P. (E). E for every 2 marks

Jack, 3, was born with Down’s Syndrome. Amanda, his mother, has given up work so that she can spend more time with Jack. She is not able to socialise as much with her friends because of her reduced income. Her diet is poor and she has recently put on a lot of weight. • Identify: Pick out some detail (this can be one word or short phrases) • Identify two factors of Amanda’s development. • There are several factors: having a son with Downs Syndrome, giving up work, loss of contact with friends, poor diet, weight increase.

Jack, 3, was born with Down’s Syndrome. Amanda, his mother, has given up work so that she can spend more time with Jack. She is not able to socialise as much with her friends because of her reduced income. Her diet is poor and she has recently put on a lot of weight. • Explain: Describe an action or event and link to the impact it would have. • E. g. • Having a reduced income has meant she has had to buy cheaper foods and so she has put on weight. • The loss of contact with her friends sometimes leaves her isolated from adult company.

Katie, 13, is going through puberty. Analyse the impact of puberty on her physical and emotional development. (8 marks) Analyse: detailed description and explanation of personal development aspect in the question. Links between the aspects. Try to make 1 P. E. E for every 2 marks. Physical Emotional development In this question: Growth spurt. Anxious. e. g. • Katie has developed breasts and her hips have widened. This has made her anxious about her appearance. It is affecting her confidence as she is confused. Breasts. Self esteem high/low Menstruation/periods. Mood swings. Hips widen. Angry. Spots. Stressed. Reproductive organs increase in size. insecurity Pubic hair/hair under arms Attraction to opposite sex. Hormone changes excited. /embarrassed/c onfused/upset

Charlie has lost his job and is now unemployed. Evaluate the possible impact of this on Charlie’s development. • Evaluate: Balanced description and explanation of both positive and negative impacts. Use PIES as a way to work through impacts and consider all factors including self-concept. In this question: Physical Emotional Social Intellectual Lack of energy due to lack of focus Low confidence Limited social contacts Lack of stimulation Sleep more-more refreshed Self esteem high/low to qualify More time for family More leisure activity time Increase exercisestamina/strength Feel a failure/dejected/frustra tion/ anger Increase/decrease in weight Become isolated Write letters of application Poor role model Anxious/contented Less pressure/less stress Better family relationships Prepare for interviews

Part of an exemplar answer. • Charlie may be less stressed if he is unemployed. This could mean he has time to create better family relationships. This will result in giving him better self esteem. • However Charlie could also become isolated and lack motivation. He may not be a good role model for his family. This will result in poor self esteem and make it hard for him to write letters of application and to prepare for interviews

‘Helpful Hints’ from OCR Candidates need to • Practise examination questions. • Know the requirements of the command words. • Make sure you understand the question. • Develop a range of vocabulary. • Re-read your answers. • Write concisely, clearly and only in allocated space or additional space.

P. I. E. S Physical needs Emotional needs Intellectual needs Social needs Key terms: Know them, understand them, use them in your answers.

A useful link for practice questions. • http: //www. ocr. org. uk/qualifications/pastpapers/ • Find the Health and Social Care GCSE • There is also a ‘google classroom’ where all relevant section of text book is scanned and there are revision quizzes etc.